On the march toward nanohertz gravitational waves using millisecond pulsars
June 28, 2022Dilpreet Kaur, a PhD candidate at ICRAR-Curtin, has recently used telescopes in Australia and India to conduct research relating to detecting gravitational waves using an array of pulsars.
Star in closest orbit ever seen around black hole
March 14, 2017Astronomers have found evidence of a star that whips around a likely black hole twice an hour. This could be the tightest orbital dance ever seen by a black hole and a companion star in our own Milky Way galaxy.
LIGO makes waves with gravitational announcement, and Australian telescopes follow up
March 7, 2016Several weeks ago, physicists at LIGO made waves with the announcement that gravitational waves had finally been observed 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence.
